E234: The Scary Side of How Alcohol Affects the Body

Sober Powered: The Neuroscience of Being Sober

Gillian Tietz, MS, CPRC

Science, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Cancer and cirrhosis. The 2 scary parts of drinking. This is going to be a brutally honest episode about the scary side of how alcohol affects the body. I purposefully split this off from the previous episode in case you don’t want to hear it. In this episode you’ll learn how the body processes alcohol, why women typically have more health related consequences than men, how alcohol causes cancer, how alcohol causes fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and the prognosis for someone with cirrhosis. I will give you a warning before I discuss the prognosis of cirrhosis so if that is information you don’t want to hear then you will be able to turn off the episode. This episode is part of a 9 episode series for Dry July 2024. Make sure to follow my podcast so you don't miss the rest of the series. Dry July Sober Powered Skills Special Dry July Course https://www.soberpowered.com/skills Sober Support: Community & Meetings: Living a Sober Powered Life https://www.soberpowered.com/membership Anger Management Program https://www.soberpowered.com/anger Sober Powered Skills (bonus episodes with practical application and coping skills) https://www.soberpowered.com/skills Weekly emails on Fridays https://www.soberpowered.com/email Free resources https://www.soberpowered.com/free Thank you for supporting this show by supporting my sponsors. Learn more: https://www.soberpowered.com/sponsors If you enjoyed this episode please consider buying me a coffee to support my work https://www.buymeacoffee.com/soberpowered Sources are posted on my website Disclaimer: all of the information described in this podcast is my interpretation of the research combined with my opinion. This is not medical advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Cancer and cirrhosis, the two scary parts of drinking.
0:05.4	This is going to be a brutally honest episode about the scary side of how alcohol affects the body.
0:12.8	I purposefully split this off from the previous episode in case you don't want to hear it.
0:18.4	In this episode, you'll learn how the body processes alcohol, why women typically have more health-related consequences than men,
0:27.0	how alcohol causes cancer, how alcohol causes fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and the prognosis for someone with cirrhosis.
0:38.6	I'll give you a warning before I discuss the prognosis of cirrhosis,
0:42.9	so if that's information that you don't want to hear,
0:46.0	but you do want to hear the rest,
0:47.8	you'll be able to turn it off
0:49.2	before getting to the scariest part.
0:51.6	And before we dig in, I'd like to take a moment to thank my sponsors who made this
0:56.1	episode possible. Everyone's obsessed with the gut microbiome these days.
1:02.9	It's like the Kardashian of the health world,
1:05.3	constantly talked about and always trending.
1:08.0	As with most trendy things, at first I thought it was stupid,
1:11.3	but after doing some research I learned how important
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1:37.9	Probiotics are the live microorganisms that help keep our gut in check.
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